Dear Git users,
I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.49.0-rc2 is available from:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.49.0-rc2.windows.1
Changes since Git for Windows v2.48.1 (February 13th 2025)
Due to persistent maintenance challenges and the community's limited
engagement and usage, git svn support in Git for Windows will be phased
out over the next few months.
Git for Windows v2.48.1 was the last version to ship with the i686
("32-bit") variant of the installer, portable Git and archive. Only
32-bit MinGit will be built for future versions, until April 2029.
New Features
* Comes with Git v2.49.0-rc2.
* Comes with OpenSSH v9.9.P2.
* Comes with PCRE2 v10.45.
* The previously-experimental --full-name-hash option has been
accepted into upstream Git as --name-hash-version=2 and is no
longer experimental.
* The git backfill command has been accepted into upstream Git; Its
--batch-size=<n> option has been renamed to --min-batch-size=<n>,
though.
Bug Fixes
* A change in upstream Git v2.48.0 broke renaming symlinks, which was
fixed.
* On a recent Insider Windows version, users experienced the message:
"Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer", which has been
fixed.
* A bug has been fixed that, when calling git add -p from VS Code's
internal terminal, after using the edit command, caused the
internal terminal got stuck and no further command was accepted.
* The syntax highlighting of the nano editor was recently disabled in
Git for Windows by mistake, which was fixed.
Git-2.49.0-rc2-64-bit.exe | ce39f83ed9882365be99b66daa0421a33b0a185f943d79b0aaae7b015082f7fc
Git-2.49.0-rc2-arm64.exe | 32d21ad1a6d8c2ba01ec9f6735076124b50d0f5621c3fbf2530e4dda2b90e3cc
PortableGit-2.49.0-rc2-64-bit.7z.exe | 91211414e062dd31a42572885fbd5b044ba9baae649cd9f439d3628bd43c3988
PortableGit-2.49.0-rc2-arm64.7z.exe | 3435b62b6cc3ecfadcf2bdc31cc9d2b3e63dda91105861d4d20c399358abe9dd
MinGit-2.49.0-rc2-64-bit.zip | 07fe73c3f3b33e7bb41c35041e184d1fee4144340d93bbe7c396ad831f42fd37
MinGit-2.49.0-rc2-arm64.zip | 6845d2d3836c9fb6f6cfc6484a033053e86ff926b94afa214a48cc52a60488cc
MinGit-2.49.0-rc2-32-bit.zip | cdc3fd847f6fe3d00d633ebda50f5e5f51a1c68685aac05b2994ab8a97b61bb3
MinGit-2.49.0-rc2-busybox-64-bit.zip | 10b3f1337436c198b0a853ce26e7922cf0b7921cdf475660ea926d2c2ac20954
MinGit-2.49.0-rc2-busybox-32-bit.zip | d44d54fc735cceec962e7b5ba8ad381219caf6033315f3358b685485ef72e736
Git-2.49.0-rc2-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 61712bde225f646bcf2915e41640070a36f8c17b27b2f68cbe7064f4d63bb0a2
Git-2.49.0-rc2-arm64.tar.bz2 | 78e9696a6b35e572047157f9626baf7572669c517eb1b3f622093825d19828db
Ciao,
Johannes
